*The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea coming into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it.
*波士頓茶葉事件，亦称波士顿倾茶，是發生在1773年12月16日，因北美被殖民者不滿英國，因而在麻萨诸塞州波士頓傾倒茶葉的事件。該事件最終引起著名的美國獨立戰爭。